idiosyncrasy

Meaning of idiosyncrasy

noun
  1. a mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual.
    one of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be in the car first
  2. an abnormal physical reaction by an individual to a food or drug.

early 17th century (originally in the sense ‘physical constitution peculiar to an individual’): from Greek idiosunkrasia, from idios ‘own, private’ + sun ‘with’ + krasis ‘mixture’.

Information about idiosyncrasy

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of idiosyncrasy is: idiosyncrasies.
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Hyphenation of idiosyncrasy

idio-syn-crasy

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • idiosyncrasy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

idiosyncrasy synonyms

Meaning foible:

foible, mannerism

Words that rhyme with idiosyncrasy

acrasy, dyscrasy, eucrasy, idiocrasy, syncrasy, theocrasy, euphrasy, phrasy, trasy

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